IC Station

Integrated circuit design is becoming more complex every day. This is especially true in analog and mixed-signal design. To address critical time-to-market issues as designs become increasingly complex, Mentor Graphics has developed the IC Station® Tool Suite, a complete IC design flow, from schematic capture to physical layout and verification.

With the help of foundry partners, we deliver complete design kit support for your target process technology, ensuring immediate access to essential data. And the IC Station Tool Suite supports multiple hardware platforms so you can make computing environment choices based on your unique cost/performance needs. That’s why analog/mixed-signal IC designers who need a total design solution choose the Mentor Graphics IC Station Tool Suite.

IC Station SDL

Schematic-driven layout (SDL) is a design methodology that enables physical design engineers to create IC layouts based on information from a logic source. IC Station SDL enables automated creation of layout data, while maintaining the relationship between layout and schematic, reducing design cycle time and assuring correct-by-construction layout.

Any mix of polygons, device generators (either custom or built-in), and cell data are supported in the layout environment. IC Station SDL helps bridge the gap between schedule and performance goals, offering productivity increases of up to 50X over traditional manual layout methods. This powerful set of tools includes all of the functionality of ICgraph Basic, along with a hierarchical, schematic-driven layout environment, enabling design engineers to quickly create complex designs without sacrificing layout quality.

IC Station SDL

Schematic-driven layout (SDL) is a design methodology that enables physical design engineers to create IC layouts based on information from a logic source. IC Station SDL enables automated creation of layout data, while maintaining the relationship between layout and schematic, reducing design cycle time and assuring correct-by-construction layout.

Any mix of polygons, device generators (either custom or built-in), and cell data are supported in the layout environment. IC Station SDL helps bridge the gap between schedule and performance goals, offering productivity increases of up to 50X over traditional manual layout methods. This powerful set of tools includes all of the functionality of ICgraph Basic, along with a hierarchical, schematic-driven layout environment, enabling design engineers to quickly create complex designs without sacrificing layout quality.